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Webster 1913 Edition

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(Shipbuilding)

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.

cross-spall ‎(plural cross-spalls)

(shipbuilding) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.